Basil Hicks

Basil Hicks, also known as "The Psycho", was a former Love Fist fan from the United Kingdom who twice attempted to murder the band in 1986. He killed a security guard outside of the Rock City store, where the group was due to have a sign-off event, and he failed to blow them up with a bomb in their car.

Biography
Basil Hicks was born in Whitehaven, northwestern England, and he grew up as a punk rock fan. Hicks initially idolized the band Love Fist, but he later said that they ruined his life, probably due to them not paying attention to him and his devotion to the band. Hicks wanted Love Fist dead, and in 1986 he traveled to Miami, Florida to kill them during one of their United States tours. Hicks, dressed as a woman, headed to one of their signings at the Rock City store, where he shot a security guard dead and attempted to flee the scene in his car. Love Fist friend Tommy Vercetti chased him down in his limo and shot his car until it caught fire near the docks, and Hicks exited his vehicle. Vercetti gunned him down in a drive-by shooting shortly before the car exploded, and Vercetti and the band believed that he had died. However, it turned out that he was still alive, and he placed a bomb in their car, informing them over an audio cassette that Vercetti would have to drive their limousine at a fast speed, or else he would kill them with the bomb. Vercetti drove at high speed without slowing to a stop, and the band members were able to cut the wires to the bomb while he did so. This was their last contact with the psycho killer, who disappeared.